Joint source-channel mappings for the relay channel

The three-node relay channel with a Gaussian source is studied for transmission subject to a low-delay constraint. A joint source-channel coding design algorithm is proposed and numerically evaluated. The designed system is compared to a reference system, based on modular source and channel coding, and the distortion-rate function for the Gaussian source, using known achievable rates on the relay channel. The structure of the source encoder and the relay mapping is visualized and discussed in order to gain understanding of how the system works. The relay mapping gets a structure that resembles a Wyner-Ziv code.

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